Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turbulent waters engulf city after city along the swollen Ohio River Valley in the worst flood in our history, the Cambridge Chapter of the American Red Cross last night made a special appeal for voluntary contributions from students...
...great opportunity for service in the solution of the power issue, there is danger of attracting people who are ruled by a Napoleonic complex, which leads them to use any method at hand, including intrigue, arbitrary force and appeal to class hatred. In my opinion such methods . . . do not contribute to the public welfare...
Hitherto Franklin Roosevelt has smiled on both and kept both in their jobs. Last week, however, came an indication that this must soon end. Whether or not Arthur Morgan felt that the cause of moderation was losing, he felt that the time had come to appeal to the public. He issued a formal statement, setting down his personal views. Long and mild, indulging in no personalities, it turned out to be a state paper setting forth the fundamental choice in power policies that lies before the New Deal, expounding a great schism in liberal philosophy...
...Creature who wrote Vile Books. The post-War world can hardly remember what all the shouting was about, can just barely recollect that Elinor Glyn once wrote a notorious bestseller, Three Weeks, was credited with inventing "It," an outmoded synonym for the equally outmoded expression "sex appeal.'' Last week Elinor Glyn refreshed the U. S.'s memory about who and what she was. Her autobiography proudly admitted that she had been a successful revivalist of Romance, was just as careful to show that she had always been a Lady...
...task of making provision for these compelling needs is a hard one. Still, its appeal must be universal, and cooperation, if sought, may perhaps be obtained in this problem. As far as long term athletic financing is concerned, endowment is the logical and satisfactory answer for the future, combined, of course, with a continuation of a policy of keeping costs down as much as is humanly possible. The training of the mind is liberally provided for, but is comparatively futile without a corresponding care for that of the body. In due course farsighted graduates may fill this vital need...